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Have issues around identity, difference, ‘mixedness’ reached an impasse? If so, what displacements in terms of analytical framework would open the way for a new politics? These are the underlying thoughts that guide the arguments in this article towards a position that is in solidarity with a politics of the commons. To do so, it draws from the kin...
This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy targeting poor children. Revealing a hidden history of exclusion, this analysis exposes the connections between the state, the education system and social policy, and opens a space for radical alternatives.
The early part of the 19th century in England is a period when a number of concerns begin to coalesce around poverty and education. These concerns, according to Jones and Williamson (1979), can be grouped in terms of the state of the poor, the state of public morals and increases in crime, particularly juvenile crime (Jones and Williamson, 1979: 63...
Previous chapters have explored how poor children and young people in the 19th century became the target for intervention. We traced how the need for intervention was formed within a discourse which emerged in response to several concerns about issues of security, the protection of property and the formation of useful labour. Except amongst a netwo...
We have been arguing that a close connection began to be established between early forms of exclusion and the interests of capital. The context is the rise to predominance of the ideas of classical liberal political economy in Britain, particularly those of Smith, Bentham and Malthus, ideas which increasingly shaped policy and opinion. Central to t...
What the genealogy so far reveals is the gradual consolidation of practices relating to exclusion in England, framed by increasingly elaborate apparatuses and techniques of governance emerging as part of an evolving biopolitics that consistently categorised the population of destitute children as the natural product of degenerate families, resistan...
In this chapter we examine the beginning of reforms that whilst taking place at around the same time as the elaboration of biopolitics in Miles and Chadwick’s approach to poverty and juvenile delinquency departs from the focus on harsh punishment by introducing elements of self-discipline and reform. Our account will show that nevertheless these ap...
The analysis of school exclusion in this study aims to show that the problem of school exclusion raises economic, political, social and historical issues which go to the heart of questions about an equitable and just society. Our starting point is the apparent conundrum that although it is widely recognised that exclusion does not work, and is imme...
Jean Genet’s judgement of Mettray refers to the institution after it had become incorporated as one of the French state’s educational apparatuses. His description intimates the insidious character of techniques of normalisation that get below the skin and into the mind and secures conformity through invisible psychological and affective binds. It a...
In the previous chapters we have explored the changes taking place in relation to the management of poverty and its ‘diseases’ as industrialisation and liberal capitalism were transforming the economic, social and political landscape across Europe and North America. In England and Wales in particular, the rapid pace of urbanisation, the consequent...
The 1830s–1850s saw intense scrutiny into the lives of poor children through a plethora of commissions and committees which were established to investigate working practices and criminal activity. The importance of these commissions, as well as the role of expert witnesses in influencing public opinion and in shaping social policy, and the key role...
This introduction to this special section on race considers the case for the thesis advanced by Ash Amin in his article ‘The Remainders of Race’ that the conjuncture of vernacular and biopolitical racism has resulted in an upsurge in racism. It draws from three responses to that article by Abdou-Maliq Simone, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ali Rattan...
In this article I examine the role of the aesthetic in the process of the reconfiguration of subjectivity and identity arising from displacement. I argue that the artwork in its various forms occupies a key place in that process, pointing out that it is the object both for expressing the dislocation of identity and for re-orienting affective energi...
This article searches for a way of theorizing the interconnectedness of processes of individuation, relationality and affect, with the aim of clearing the ground for an approach that establishes the basis of this interconnectedness by reference to mechanisms common to all living things. It establishes a number of shifts that enable us to think the...
Foucault’s analysis of the relation of power and the economy in the lectures given at the Collège de France between 1975 and 1979 opens up modern societies for a radically different interrogation of the relations of force inscribed in historically heterogeneous forms of wealth creation and distribution, but more specifically within the period of li...
This Introduction to the Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Michel Foucault draws out from the papers included the possibilities for new critiques of the present and new directions for the future, both for research in the social sciences and for imagining alternative ways of being. It highlights the innovative aspects of all the papers,...
If subjectivity is relational and metastable by reference to the material, discursive and psychological conditions that constitute it, it would follow that dislocations provoked by diasporic displacement occasion mutations in subjectivity and identity. The problems concern finding ways of understanding the mechanisms and means that enable subjects...
In this interview, Bernard Stiegler speaks about new relations of technics, milieu and symbolization in the mutation of human potentialities. Forces at work today, such as consumer- or drive-based capitalism, in alliance with new media practices, threaten all life. A libidinal economy that aligns desire to the teleological scope of an emancipatory...
The Introduction situates the set of 'Problematizing Global Knowledge: Critical Commentaries' in the context of the Theory, Culture & Society New Encyclopaedia Project (TCS special issue 23[2-3], 2006). various commentaries that follow interrogate the non-Eurocentric and non-Occidentalist commitment of the project.
This interview with Katherine Hayles was conducted at the University of Tokyo on 16 July 2007, immediately before her plenary lecture at UMAT entitled 'Reality Mining, RFIDs, and Real Fears about Infinite Data'. Those present were Nicholas Gane, Couze Venn and Martin Hand. The interview focuses on new forms of surveillance that are emerging through...
This article displaces the terrain upon which the question of power in modern societies has been framed by reference to the concept of hegemony. It presents a genealogy of power which pays attention to what has been at stake in the shifts in the effectivity of the concept of hegemony for cultural theory from the 1960s, correlating the mutations in...
This introduction surveys a number of problems for contemporary cultural theory, which arise from the transformations in culture that have been produced by developments ranging from the globalization of third wave capitalism to the emergence of tele-technologies. It summarizes arguments presented by Lash, Thoburn, Johnson, Terranova and Venn, as we...
For different reasons, and with different political goals at stake, the fundamental principles advocated by the Enlightenment are being challenged by both the left and the right. This entry sets out to clear a critical space for examining what is at stake in the present in interrogating its legacy as discourse for imagining alternative transmodern...
Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about the elaboration of a logos that u...
This paper addresses the theoretical issues underlying the repetition of violence in situations where antagonisms between communities have become endemic. It examines the extent to which concepts of narrative identity, translation and the exchange of memories provide analysis with a language for understanding the obstacles to dialogue in these situ...
The theorization of the relays and relationships between the psychic and the social, as well as between the cognitive and the expressive, is still obstructed by the resilience of the egocentric and logocentric subject invented by the discourse of modernity. This article examines the possibilities opened up by the work of Lichtenberg Ettinger for br...
Technology is always limited to the realm of means, while morality is supposed to deal with ends. In this theoretical article about comparing those two regimes of enunciation, it is argued that technology is on the contrary characterized by the `ends of means' that is the impossibility of being limited to tools; technical artefacts are never tools...
This article addresses the fundamental issues about sovereignty and an ethical polity that the event of September 11th has brought to a crisis. It examines the geography of power that has become more visible as the USA sets about ensuring that the new world order that has been emerging with neo-liberalism and corporate capitalism is protected from...
Derrida, in some remarks about the inauguration of new refuge-cities in Europe and America,argues for the invention of a new cosmopolitical polity which would be instituted on the basis of an ethics of hospitality. The implications run up against current notions of sovereigntyand challenge many current assumptions about citizenship and rights which...
This brief note takes the form of challenging a number of assumptions and generalizations in the article by Bourdieu and Wacquant. It calls for the invention of a new vocabulary to address the issues which have arisen for intellectuals in the context of the loss in authority of once secure foundations of modern critical enterprise, and the increasi...
Soulevant le paradoxe d'une interrogation toujours renouvelee sur la subjectivite et la modernite, caracteristique des Lumieres selon Foucault (in «Qu'est-ce que les lumieres?», 1991), l'A. examine les differentes formes que peut prendre la subjectivite aujourd'hui, a travers les histoires de la modernite de P. Giroy, F. Fanon et E. Said qui revend...
Thesis (Ph. D.), Dept. of Sociology -- University of Essex, 1983.